A blend of Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Lucia Highlands and Edna Valley, this is a tasty, easy-drinking Pinot. It’s soft, with cola, cherry, raspberry, tea, licorice and cinnamon spice flavors, and finishes dry.——S.H.(11/1/2007)—— 86

From northeast-facing vineyards that catch morning sun at 1,200 feet, this is micro-terroir grapegrowing at its most extreme. Cool weather has yielded crisp acidity and fruit that runs the razor’s edge between raspberry ripeness and mint-and-tomato earthiness. Very fine barrels add smoke, spice, vanilla and oak-modulated roundness. It seems to lack depth, but then so do certain Burgundies in their youth. —S.H.——S.H.(9/1/2002)—— 89